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Seeing that Li Dingtian was resolute, Li Qian stopped interceding for Li Mo.

"Do you have anything else to do? If not, I will start handling official business." Li Dingtian said.

Afterwards, Li Qian left the study and walked toward her boudoir.

On the way, she met a servant walking towards her in a hurry.

"Miss."

"Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

The servant immediately explained the reason. After hearing this, Li Qian's face suddenly showed joy, and then she quickened her pace and walked towards her boudoir.

After a while, Li Qian returned to her boudoir. At this moment, a maid was pouring tea for a figure sitting at the table.

"Cousin, you are here!" Zhu Xinru, who was wearing a white dress and had a gentle temperament, stood up and greeted Li Qian.

Li Qian looked at her cousin with a smile, then came to the table, pulled out a chair and sat down, "It's rare that you come to see me. Is there something wrong?"

Zhu Xinru opened the food box on the table and took out several plates of pastries, "I made some pastries and wanted you to taste them."

"So you asked me to taste the pastry!" Li Qian said with a grin, reaching out and taking out a piece of green pastry from the plate and took a bite.

The sweet taste bloomed between her lips and teeth, and Li Qian's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Cousin, how does the mung bean cake I made taste?" Zhu Xinru asked.

"It's delicious. Your pastry making skills have improved again." Li Qian praised.

If Zhu Xinru has nothing to do during this time, she will ask the pastry chef at home for advice.

Unknowingly, her pastry-making skills have improved greatly.

After Li Qian finished eating the mung bean cake in her hand, she suddenly remembered something, "By the way, there is something I almost forgot to tell you."

Zhu Xinru asked with some confusion, "What's going on?"

"I met Lin Li on the road yesterday and chatted with him for a while..." Li Qian smiled and told Zhu Xinru what happened when she met Lin Li yesterday.

"So he is still in Dongwu City!" Zhu Xinru said to herself after hearing this.

"I told him that if I have time later, I will go to your house to hang out with you, and he agreed." Li Qian said with a smile.

"Eh?!!!" Zhu Xinru was stunned when she heard this, and then a happy smile appeared on her fair face.

Seeing the happy expression on Zhu Xinru's face, Li Qian became more sure of her thoughts, and then secretly figured out how to help her cousin.

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The sun in the sky was obscured by a large cloud floating in the distance, and a large shadow immediately appeared on the ground.

Lin Li walked out of a shop selling handicrafts, looked up at the large clouds moving slowly in the sky, and muttered to himself.

"The sky was clear just now, but in a short while, there were so many clouds in the sky..."

An old man with gray hair and a lot of candied haws on his shoulders came forward.

"Mom, I want to eat candied haws on a stick." A little boy couldn't walk after seeing the candied haws on a stick. He immediately stopped and pointed to the old man selling candied haws on a stick, acting coquettishly to his mother beside him.

After a while, many children surrounded the old man selling candied haws, and behind these children stood their parents.

Lin Li heard a burst of children's laughter in the distance, and then looked back at the clouds in the sky.

"It's so popular! I'll buy a bunch to try too!"

After a while.

Not to mention, the Dongwucheng candied haws of food tastes very good.

Lin Li continued to wander along the street while eating candied haws.

Suddenly, he saw many people gathered in an open field by the roadside.

If it were just ordinary people gathering together, Lin Li would at most take a few glances and continue walking forward.

However, at this time, the crowd gathered in the open field were carrying weapons, and some people were even emitting psychic energy fluctuations.

"How come there are so many practitioners gathered here?"

Lin Li was full of curiosity and walked towards the open field. Soon, he arrived at the place and glanced at the scene. He found some practitioners holding signs in their hands and shouting.

"Here comes a first-level peak practitioner. We will set off as soon as everyone arrives."

"Here comes a second-level initial practitioner. We will set off in the evening after everyone has arrived."

"Here comes a second-level mid-level practitioner. After everyone is here, we will set off tomorrow morning..."

These people are looking for teammates, what are they going to do... Lin Li watched for a while, but still couldn't figure out what these people were going to do.

After thinking for a moment, he reached out and stopped a fat man.

"Brother, can I ask you something?" Lin Li said with a smile, and at the same time he thrust a fifty-copper banknote into the other person's hand.

The fat man was suddenly stopped by a stranger and frowned slightly. However, when he saw the banknotes in his hand, his frown immediately relaxed and he said kindly.

"Okay! If you want to know anything, just ask..."

Lin Li glanced at the shouting crowd in the distance and asked.

"They are looking for people to form a team. What are they going to do?"

The fat man didn't expect Lin Li to ask such a simple question, so he answered it with a smile.

"The purple bamboo fruits growing near Luoqiu Valley outside the city are ripe, and they plan to find someone to form a team to pick them together..."

Lin Li didn't understand the purple bamboo fruit and asked, "Is the purple bamboo fruit a spiritual fruit?"

"..." The fat man suddenly fell silent after hearing what Lin Li said. Then he looked at Lin Li as if he were a fool and thought to himself, "What is this man thinking? If the Purple Bamboo Fruit is a spiritual fruit, where can it be?" It’s their turn!”

A few seconds later, the fat man said to Lin Li, "Purple bamboo fruit is not a spiritual fruit, it is just an ordinary fruit with a unique taste, but it is not cheap. If you pick it at this time, you can make a small amount of money."

Lin Li nodded after hearing this, and then asked some more questions.

"Do you have any other questions to ask? If not, I have to leave..." the slightly fat man asked.

Lin Li shook his head. After the other party left, he wandered around the empty square where many practitioners gathered.

In addition to teaming up to pick purple bamboo fruits, there are also teams to do other things.

Ten minutes later, Lin Li came to a strong man about 1.85 meters tall, with a Chinese character face and about thirty-five or six years old.

On this person's sign, it was clearly written what he was going to do, and what he was going to do was not to pick purple bamboo fruits.

"This little brother, we need teammates in the middle of the second stage."

The strong man was quite kind. Seeing that Lin Li was young, he reminded him.

"Why are you going to the abandoned spirit stone mine? Can you please tell me?" Lin Li glanced at the content written on the sign and asked curiously.

When the strong man saw that Lin Li did not leave after his reminder, he was not angry. Instead, he said with a smile.

"It is said that a spiritual plant that can bear spiritual fruits grew out of that abandoned spiritual stone mine. We want to find it."

Lin Li heard this and said with a smile, "Spiritual plants that can bear spiritual fruits are expensive. If you can find them, you will make a fortune."

"Yes!" The strong man responded with a smile.

"However, there should be many people who know the news..."

"Yes, this news appeared three months ago. During this time, several groups of people have been to the abandoned spirit stone mine."

"It has been several months, but no one has found the spiritual plant that can bear spiritual fruits." Lin Li said in surprise.

"The abandoned spirit stone mine is quite large and it's not easy to find." The strong man said.

Lin Li said, "Is it false news that there are spiritual plants there?"

The strong man said optimistically, "I don't know about this. Let's try our luck. Maybe we will find it..."

Lin Li thought for a while and said, "Yeah, I can't say for sure, so it's good to try your luck... Count me in!"

The strong man was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then looked Lin Li up and down, and said, "Brother, we need practitioners who are in the middle of the second stage."

Lin Li laughed, and then he mobilized the spiritual energy in his Dantian, and his body suddenly emitted mid-level second-level spiritual energy fluctuations.

The strong man unfolded his mental perception and detected the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Lin Li's body, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

After a few seconds of silence, Lin Li saw that the other party was silent and asked, "Can I?"

The strong man smiled and said, "Okay, I didn't expect you, little brother, to have a mid-level second-level cultivation at such a young age. You're really amazing!"

Lin Li said modestly, "It's okay. I'm lucky enough to have reached the middle stage of the second stage."

"My name is Wang Dazhuang. What's your surname, little brother?" the strong man introduced himself.

"My name is Lin Li." Lin Li replied with a smile.

"Brother Wang, have you found anyone?" A pleasant voice sounded beside him.

Lin Li turned around and saw a man and a woman coming in front of him.

The speaker was a tall, short-haired girl with a handsome appearance, who was three or four years older than Lin Li.

"Found it." Wang Dazhuang introduced Lin Li to his two companions.

The short-haired girl's name was Wu Xiaohe. When she learned that Lin Li had a mid-level second-level cultivation, she said in shock, "You are so powerful!"

"It's okay, okay." Lin Li smiled slightly and said modestly.

The man following Wu Xiaohe was named Ji Haoyang, who was 1.75 meters tall. For some reason, there was a hint of wariness in his eyes when he looked at Lin Li.

"Lin Li, you have reached the middle stage of the second level of cultivation at your age. If you go to the City Lord's Mansion to apply for a job, you will definitely be vigorously cultivated." Wu Xiaohe said, with a look of yearning in his eyes.

To serve in the city lord's mansion and be vigorously cultivated is what every practitioner without background desires most.

Lin Li smiled and shook his head, and then said to Wu Xiaohe, "I'm used to being free."

"Uh..." Wu Xiaohe was speechless after hearing this, and thought to himself, he is indeed a genius in cultivation, but his ideas are different from ours.

"Cultivating quickly now does not mean that it will be so fast in the future. If you don't seize the opportunity now, don't regret it in the future." Ji Haoyang said sourly.

Lin Li smiled and said nothing, while Wu Xiaohe glared at his companion.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Wang Dazhuang opened his mouth to smooth things over, "Okay, now that everyone has gotten to know each other, let me tell you when we will set off tomorrow."

Later, Lin Li learned about the departure time tomorrow and said goodbye.

When Lin Li's figure disappeared, Wu Xiaohe turned his head and said to Ji Haoyang, "Why did you talk like that just now?"

"What happened to what I just said?" Ji Haoyang's eyes flickered.

Wu Xiaohe said, "He has just become our teammate. It's so unfriendly for you to say such things..."

Ji Haoyang didn't want to admit his mistake and whispered, "I told the truth, and I didn't mean to target him."

"You..." Wu Xiaohe didn't know what to say. He glared angrily, then turned and left.

"Xiao He, where are you going?" Ji Haoyang shouted hurriedly.

"Go home..." Wu Xiaohe responded without looking back.

"I'll take you back." Ji Haoyang quickly chased after him, and the two figures disappeared into the crowd in a short while.

Wang Dazhuang looked at the two people leaving, shook his head helplessly, then turned and left.

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"Tomorrow morning I will go to the abandoned Lingshi Mine with Wang Dazhuang and the others. I will not go back to Blue Star today. I will spend the night here and meet them after breakfast tomorrow morning..."

Lin Li was walking on the street, thinking and making a decision in his mind. At this time, he saw a shop selling pastries across the street and walked over immediately.

After a while, Lin Li walked out of the shop holding a paper bag containing pastries.

There were a lot of people buying things in the store just now, so it was a little inconvenient to open the paper bags.

After coming out of the store, Lin Li couldn't wait to open the paper bag and took out a piece of exquisite pastry.

“It’s so delicious. The pastry chef in this shop is really good at his craftsmanship!”

Lin Li ate the pastry in his hand and looked back at the shop selling pastries, thinking about visiting again in the future.

"Get out of the way." An urgent voice sounded in the distance.

"Yeah!" Some passers-by screamed, and the quiet street suddenly became agitated.

Lin Li heard the noisy movement and immediately turned his head to look.

I saw a panicked young man running wildly and knocking down many people.

Behind him, there were several soldiers in armor chasing closely.

"Soldiers looking for fugitives?"

When Lin Li saw the scene happening in front of him, the scene of a vicious fugitive escaping from prison immediately appeared in his mind.

"Get out of my way." The panicked young man shouted to the passers-by blocking the road.

Then he turned around and glanced behind him, and saw the soldiers in armor shortening the distance and about to catch up with him, and he became more and more anxious.

At this time, an enthusiastic passerby suddenly stretched out his right foot.

The panicked young man tripped and fell immediately because he didn't pay attention to his steps.

"Ouch."

Because I was running too fast, I fell down very hard and screamed in pain.

The soldiers in armor surrounded the young man but did not catch him.

"Why are these soldiers standing around like this? Hurry up and handcuff him!" Lin Li was very confused.

Then, he heard one of the soldiers wearing armor speaking respectfully to the young man lying on the ground.

"Master, don't run away anymore, come back with us!"

"Master? Isn't this guy a fugitive?" Lin Li was stunned, and then looked at the young man lying on the ground in surprise.

"Who tripped me just now?" The young man got up from the ground and asked loudly without thinking about escaping.

The passers-by who were watching the excitement all looked at Lin Li.

"Um..." Lin Li raised his hand to touch his nose in embarrassment, and muttered in a low voice, "Who could have imagined that it would be like this!"

"Did you trip me?" The young man followed the passerby's gaze and looked at Lin Li and asked.

Lin Li said apologetically, "I'm so sorry, I thought we were catching fugitives!"

"How do I look like a fugitive?" the young man asked, pointing to his handsome face.

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